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Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem. In fact, a city is nothing more than a solution to a problem, that in turn creates more problems that need more solutions, until towers rise, roads widen, bridges are built, and millions of people are caught up in a mad race to feed the problem-solving, problem-creating frenzy. By Neal Shusterman Cities Random Problem Problems Matter

This city is like no other city in the world. It is brilliant but it is bloated, and I've never called it home By Jessie Burton City World Bloated Home Brilliant

Every now and then the city shook its soul out. It assailed you with an image, or a day, or a crime, or a terror, or a beauty so difficult to wrapy your mind around that you had to shake your head in disbelief. By Colum Mccann City Shook Soul Image Day

A culture, we all know, is made by its cities. By Derek Walcott Culture Cities Made

The Art of a Relationship Living in a city is an art, not a science. Choosing to live in a city is choosing to enter into a relationship with it. And, like any human relationship, the relationship you have with your city is one that requires nurturing, constant practice and work. By The School Of Life Art Living Relationship City Science

In cities men cannot be prevented from concerting together, and from awakening a mutual excitement which prompts sudden and passionate resolutions. Cities may be looked upon as large assemblies, of which all the inhabitants are members; their populace exercises a prodigious influence upon the magistrates, and frequently executes its own wishes without their intervention. By Alexis De Tocqueville Resolutions Cities Men Prevented Concerting

Cities are about juxtaposition. By Richard Rogers Cities Juxtaposition

In a city, you can be alone in a crowd, and in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes. By Orhan Pamuk City Crowd Multitudes Fact Makes

A city is a sea that you lose things in. You only find things that other people have lost. By David Mitchell Things City Sea Lose Lost

Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants. By Dionne Brand Cities People Stray Arrivants Collect

The true measure of a city is its soul. This is the restless energy that doesn't wait for political leadership. By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco Soul True Measure City Leadership

It's never the same city. Your city isn't even the same as my city, I bet. By David Levithan City Bet

Listen. I own this city. Bought and paid for. I have the key to the city in my pocket and a tattoo that says 'Fuck you. I'm the Mayor.'. By Scott Lefebvre Listen City Fuck Mayor Bought

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams. By Herb Caen Width Dreams City Gauged Length

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored. By Danny Boyle City Person Bored Grew Holiday

London is not a city, London is a person. Tower Bridge talks to you; National Gallery reads a poem for you; Hyde Park dances with you; Palace of Westminster plays the piano; Big Ben and St Paul's Cathedral sing an opera! London is not a city; it is a talented artist who is ready to contact with you directly! By Mehmet Murat Ildan London City Person National Hyde

Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for in the experience of human communities. In English, 'country' is both a nation and a part of a 'land'; 'the country' can be the whole society or its rural area. In the long history of human settlements, this connection between the land from which directly or indirectly we all get our living and the achievements of human society has been deeply known. By Raymond Williams Country Human City Words Communities

We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun. By Theodore Roosevelt Inevitable Growing Afford Sit Deplore

hidden in this huge city beats in unison the heart of a whole people seeking to find their route to a better future. By Dulce Rodrigues Hidden Future Huge City Beats

A city is a place that can offer maximum freedom. Otherwise it's incomplete. By Ai Weiwei Freedom City Place Offer Maximum

the city is humanity intensified - a magnifying glass that brings out the very best and worst of human nature By Timothy J. Keller Intensified Nature City Humanity Magnifying

Cities are the huge central dynamos of all being. The power of a man can be measured today by the mile, the number of miles between him and the city; that is, between him and what the city stands for the centre of mass. By Gerald Stanley Lee Cities Huge Central Dynamos City

Cities are for people. A city is where people come to work and raise their families and to spend their money and to walk in the evening. It is not a traffic corridor. By John Norquist Cities People Evening Corridor City

Of all American cities of whatever size the most friendly on preliminary inspection, and on further acquaintance the most likable. The happiest-hearted, the gayest, the most care-free city on this continent. By Irvin S. Cobb American Inspection Likable Cities Size

Eyes mark the shape of the city. By Haruki Murakami Eyes City Mark Shape

A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds. By Herb Caen Odds City Crazy Concrete Jungle

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind. By Lewis Mumford Art Nature Cave Antheap City

Does that city create its citizens, or is the city only a dream of its citizens. By Bram Stoker Citizens City Create Dream

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity. By Daniel Libeskind Cities Humanity Greatest Creations

The city is not merely a repository of pleasures. It is the stage on which we fight our battles, where we act out the drama of our own lives. It can enhance or corrode our ability to cope with everyday challenges. It can steal our autonomy or give us the freedom to thrive. It can offer a navigable environment, or it can create a series of impossible gauntlets that wear us down daily. The messages encoded in architecture and systems can foster a sense of mastery or helplessness. By Charles Montgomery Pleasures City Repository Battles Lives

The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape By Rem Koolhaas City Escape Addictive Machine

God! I loove this city! By Herb Caen God City Loove

They were born in the city from people born elsewhere. By Dionne Brand Born City People

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past. By Kenneth Tynan Past City Living Immediacy Urgent

New Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people. By Anne Rice City Orleans Happy Roaches Decay

By 2050, seven out of ten people will live in cities, which will account for six billion people living in urban areas. That phenomenon is central to all the challenges humanity faces. If there is an issue to be addressed, then it is certainly happening in cities and therefore must be considered on an urban scale. By Eduardo Paes People Areas Cities Ten Live

Thriving metropolis. Home to dozens. By Patrick Rothfuss Thriving Metropolis Home Dozens

Some cities are women and must be loved; others are men and can only be admired or bargained with By Angela Carter Loved Cities Women Men Admired

Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten. By A.j. Liebling Francisco Boston Orleans San Magnificence

A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4 A.M. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and foghorns speak in dark grays. San Francisco is such a city. By Herb Caen City Petition Boo Justice Fish

The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city. By David Harvey City Resources Individual Liberty Access

The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone. By Colson Whitehead City Living Person

I can pick out people in this city to follow. I can be in a show at the Museum of Modern Art, my space in the Museum of Modern Art is my mailbox, my mail is delivered there. Whenever I want mail, I have to go through this city to get my mail. By Vito Acconci Museum Modern Art Follow City

Cities can become the engines that fuel our nation's growth and prosperity, and they can be wide gateways for families to achieve their own American dream of prosperity. By Cory Booker Prosperity American Cities Engines Fuel

My provocative statement is that we desperately need a serious, scientific theory of cities and scientific theory means quantifiable, relying on underlying generic principles that can be made in a - put into a predictive framework. That's the quest. By Geoffrey West Scientific Theory Quantifiable Relying Put

The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical arts, and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows in poverty, necessity and darkness. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Country City Recruited Energy Trade

all the women in the city By J.c. Nelson City Women

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago. The other places don't count. Having seen it, I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages By Rudyard Kipling City Chicago Struck Real Call

Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design. By Jane Jacobs City Cities Error Failure Success

The Composite City where all human potentials are spread out in a vast silent market. By William S. Burroughs Composite City Market Human Potentials

Cities are just a physical manifestation of your interactions, our interactions, and the clustering and grouping of individuals. By Geoffrey West Interactions Cities Individuals Physical Manifestation

The city is a device for measuring time. By Don Delillo Time City Device Measuring

Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers. By Truman Capote Christmas Trees Conceal Gifts Secret

Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller's, only to know that one might. A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination. By Rebecca Solnit Variety Cities Anonymity Conjunction Qualities

in Edward Glaeser, The Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier (New York: Penguin, 2011). 2. The Dictionary of Biblical Imagery (ed. Leland Ryken, James C. Wilhoit, and Tremper Longman III [Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1998], 150) speaks of the city as "humanity en masse" and therefore "humanity 'writ large.'" 3. The Dictionary of Biblical Imagery (p. 150) defines city as a "fortified habitation." 4. See Frank Frick, The City By Timothy J. Keller City Smarter Greener Healthier Penguin

People of this world, look upon this city and see that you should not and cannot abandon this city and this people. By Ernst Reuter City People World Abandon

The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaction and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilization. It is what we seek today. By Lyndon B. Johnson American Place Belong Man City

Blame the city I'm a product of it By Drake Blame City Product

A city is simply a passel of people packed in a pot like pickles. By David Detzer Pickles City Simply Passel People

This is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again. By Alexander Mccall Smith Light Skies Vistas City Shifting

we may always find a great and a beautiful city in the world for ourselves but the most precious and finest city to live in is our mind; a positive mind and a per second positive thoughts By Ernest Agyemang Yeboah City Mind Positive Thoughts Find

The country is the world of the soul, the city is the world of bodies. By Baha'u'llah World Soul Bodies Country City

That underlay the city of Chicago. By Jim Butcher Chicago Underlay City

Our cities of the present lack the outstanding symbol of national community which, we must therefore not be surprised to find, sees no symbol of itself in the cities. The inevitable result is a desolation whose practical effect is the total indifference of the big-city dweller to the destiny of his city. By Adolf Hitler Symbol Cities Find Present Lack

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American By Charlotte Perkins Gilman York American Exile Unnatural City

A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness By Clarence Stein Happiness City Built Give Inhabitants

New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say These New Yorkers don't dress any better than we do. By Robert Benchley People York Oshkosh Dubuque Yorkers

The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die. By Jaime Lerner City Integration Secret Work Leisure

New York is the last true city. By Toni Morrison York City True

This is the entranceTo the city of you... By Mark Doty Entranceto City

We must learn to see it in many ways, so that when one of the ways of looking hurts us, we can take refuge in another way of looking. You must always love the city. By Bilal Tanweer Learn Hurts Refuge City Love

How the city attracts all types and how the unwary must suffer from ignorance of its ways. By Cyprian Ekwensi City Attracts Types Unwary Suffer

Cities are platforms for sharing. By Lisa Gansky Cities Sharing Platforms

In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking, witnessing, being in public, are as much part of the design and purpose as is being inside to eat, sleep, make shoes or love or music. The word citizen has to do with cities, and the ideal city is organized around citizenship around participation in public life. By Rebecca Solnit Walking Witnessing Sleep Cities Spaces

Cities don't change people. People don't even change people. We are who we are. By Hank Moody People Cities Change

But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow old, and eventually they die By Elif Shafak Forget Cities Human Born Adolescence

It's a funny thing about cities: Some have brief, bright moments of cultural and political dominance, decades- or centuries-long spells when they seem the center of their particular nation, or region, or empire ... only to later fall into obscurity and disrepair, never to regain their former glory. By Hanya Yanagihara Decades Cities Bright Dominance Nation

The city loves you when you're flying high and kicks you when you're down. By Sarah Jio City Loves Flying High Kicks

City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age. By Leon Trotsky Fantasy Automation Cubism Dollar City

My city too turnt up, Ill take a fine for that. By Masai Ujiri Ill City Turnt Fine

There is really one city for everyone just as there is one major love. By Dawn Powell Love City Major

A city is like a family portrait - you don't tear it up if you don't like your uncle's nose. By Jaime Lerner Portrait Nose City Family Tear

Brooklyn, New York, and By Michael J. Tougias Brooklyn York

The cool, grey city of love. By George Sterling Cool Grey Love City

The city is all right. To live in oneIs to be civilized, stay up and readOr sing and dance all night and see sunriseBy waiting up instead of getting up. By Robert Frost City Civilized Stay Live Oneis

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. By Walt Whitman Women Great City Greatest Men

A city presents many different faces, and it is up to the traveller to assemble the proper composite. By David Levithan Faces Composite City Presents Traveller

Every city has a neighborhood like this one, where you can buy sex or marijuana or a parrot that talks dirty, where the men sit talking on stoops like those men across the street, where the women always seem to be yelling for their kids to come in unless they want a whipping, and where the wine always comes in a paper sack. By Stephen King Men Dirty Street Whipping Sack

Good morning, the city says. Fuck you. By Marie-Helene Bertino Good Morning City Fuck

The same things go on everywhere, whether you're from the city, the country or wherever. By Bubba Sparxxx City Things Country

The city bursts with ideas as with traffic, a swirl of newness and surprise. Who can be bored in a city? If you are tired of one activity you can try something else, change your job, take your custom to another restaurant. By Jan Morris Traffic Surprise City Bursts Ideas

I believe that feeling like a human, behaving like a human, responding like a human to others and to your surrounding environment is the key to living a fulfilled life in the city. By The School Of Life Human Behaving Responding City Feeling

a city that took more from them than it ever gave back By Anne-Marie Casey Back City Gave

It's a strange city ... filled with things that are not obvious. By A.m. Homes City Strange Filled Obvious Things

Each one of us possesses in himself a separate and distinct city, a unique city, as we possess different aspects of the same person. By Anais Nin City Person Possesses Separate Distinct

Under the seeming disorder of the old city, wherever the old city is working successfully, is a marvelous order for maintaining the safety of the streets and the freedom of the city. It is a complex order. Its essence is intricacy of sidewalk use, bringing with it a constant succession of eyes. This order is all composed of movement and change, and although it is life, not art, we may fancifully call it the art form of the city and liken it to the dance - not to a simple-minded precision dance with everyone kicking up at the same time, twirling in unison and bowing off en masse, but to an intricate ballet in which the individual dancers and ensembles all have distinctive parts which miraculously reinforce each other and compose an orderly whole. The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any once place is always replete with new improvisations. By Jane Jacobs City Order Successfully Place Disorder

I don't like going to cities. I don't mind maybe being in a city sometimes for a few hours, but I pretty much don't like cities. I don't even like passing through them. By Will Oldham Cities Hours Mind City Pretty

The city that acknowledges and celebrates our common fate, that opens doors to empathy and cooperation, will help us tackle the great challenges of this century. By Charles Montgomery Fate Cooperation Century City Acknowledges

What makes cities great, and what leads to their gradual demise? As this book will argue, three critical factors have determined the overall health of cities - the sacredness of place, the ability to provide security and project power, and last, the animating role of commerce. By Joel Kotkin Great Demise Cities Makes Leads

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man? By Ralph Waldo Emerson Materials Man City Sit Aggregate